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Show Breaking Up Soil With Powder. It doesn't tako long to tear an aero to pIoccb with the powdor system now being used In adobo Innds. A demonstration demon-stration a fow days ago on tho college farm showed how thoroughly tho ground was broken up. Whether the process Is to bo successful Is still to be proved. E. R. Anhast hns chnrgo of the work now being done. In ground to be used for an orchard Mr. Anhast had holes bored 10G to tho aero 15 feet apart. Tho charges put Into thoso were connected with wires. Throo rows nbout twolve or fifteen chnrgoH, woro flred at ono tlmo. The tough adobo was cracked from holo to holo: largo pieces roso twonty-dvo or thirty feet Into tho air. Tho ground was In fairly good condition to plow, but It will bo even better nftor frost has laid Its softening Influence upon it. It costs about $15 an ncro for tho powder and possibly $2.60 or $2.75 tor tho labor. Manhattan Industrialist. sim st |